Chris’s dotfiles

Installation

Using Git and the bootstrap script

You can clone the repository wherever you want. The bootstrapper script will pull in the latest version and link the files to your home folder.

git clone https://github.com/cmbuckley/dotfiles.git && cd dotfiles && ./bootstrap.sh

To update, cd into your local dotfiles repository and then:

./bootstrap.sh

Alternatively, to update while avoiding the confirmation prompt:

./bootstrap.sh -f

Specify the $PATH

If ~/.path exists, it will be sourced along with the other files, before any feature testing takes place.

Sensible OS X defaults

When setting up a new Mac, you may want to set some sensible OS X defaults:

./.osx

Install Homebrew formulae

When setting up a new Mac, you may want to install some common Homebrew formulae (after installing Homebrew, of course):

./.brew

Feedback

Suggestions/improvements welcome!

Thanks to…

• Mathias Bynens for my initial fork
• Gianni Chiappetta for sharing his amazing collection of dotfiles
• Matijs Brinkhuis and his dotfiles repository
• Jan Moesen and his ancient .bash_profile + shiny tilde repository
• Ben Alman and his dotfiles repository
• Nicolas Gallagher and his dotfiles repository
• Tom Ryder and his dotfiles repository
• Chris Gerke and his tutorial on creating an OS X SOE master image + Insta repository
• @ptb and his OS X Lion Setup repository
• Lauri ‘Lri’ Ranta for sharing loads of hidden preferences
• Tim Esselens